29 ms·

Degrees are worthless. A degree courses is designed to be easy to grade, not to teach you anything useful. The point is to show you are capable of learning, not

Degrees are worthless. A degree courses is designed to be easy to grade, not to teach you anything useful. The point is to show you are capable of learning, not to make you capable of doing a job. This makes them fairly portable, while jobs may ask for a degree with a specific subject they will generally consider anyone with a degree, unless its marine biology or some shit. Code camps and uni are a good start, but if you want to actually know what you are doing, it takes years of experience, there is no way around this. > Easy problems take me 2-5 hours This is fairly typical of someone learning programming for the first time, it is also typical of someone coming out of uni with a degree. I wouldn't worry about it and just keep at it. > Even if I get a problem right, I gain little to no satisfaction at this point. Then quit this is the only reason people actually like programming.

deviationblue 8y ago
> marine biology or some shit Highly ignorant comment, makes everything else you're saying less credible. I'd say instead that STEM subjects are more conducive to instilling a certain style of thinking that's helpful for certain careers.
zaat 8y ago
>Degrees are worthless. A degree courses is designed to be easy to grade, not to teach you anything useful. My experience is very far from what you describe. I learned ton of stuff from teachers who were mostly enthusiastic about the field they were teaching. Do you write from your own experience? do you have a degree?
- zamalek 8y ago
  It depends strongly on where you go. I dropped out in my 20's because I was learning bugger all from completely disinterested lecturers. I'm picking it up again at 31 (new university) and I'm not only mostly enjoying it but I'm even enjoying "bullshit" subjects that have nothing to do with CS. Some universities (I would assume most) are businesses that print degrees and answer to shareholders, others are learning institutions that answer to students.
- ataturk 8y ago
  I'm pretty capable of demonstrating that my degrees have had a huge affect on my life and my career, so not worthless. You get out what you put in, however. Maybe that's what you meant? If you just go through life ticking boxes and collecting tokens, you get what you get. Gaming the system is a strategy, it's just not the one I chose.

deviationblue 8y ago

> marine biology or some shit Highly ignorant comment, makes everything else you're saying less credible. I'd say instead that STEM subjects are more conducive to instilling a certain style of thinking that's helpful for certain careers.

zaat 8y ago

>Degrees are worthless. A degree courses is designed to be easy to grade, not to teach you anything useful. My experience is very far from what you describe. I learned ton of stuff from teachers who were mostly enthusiastic about the field they were teaching. Do you write from your own experience? do you have a degree?

zamalek 8y ago
It depends strongly on where you go. I dropped out in my 20's because I was learning bugger all from completely disinterested lecturers. I'm picking it up again at 31 (new university) and I'm not only mostly enjoying it but I'm even enjoying "bullshit" subjects that have nothing to do with CS. Some universities (I would assume most) are businesses that print degrees and answer to shareholders, others are learning institutions that answer to students.
ataturk 8y ago
I'm pretty capable of demonstrating that my degrees have had a huge affect on my life and my career, so not worthless. You get out what you put in, however. Maybe that's what you meant? If you just go through life ticking boxes and collecting tokens, you get what you get. Gaming the system is a strategy, it's just not the one I chose.